Motivational Quotes

Joy

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Joy

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Rohn, Jim

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think.

Socrates

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love

Mother Teresa

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Rosten, Leo

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Hill, Napoleon

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.

Sculley, John

10.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

13.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Hepburn, Katharine

14.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

15.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Hubbard, Elbert

16.

It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

17.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Bradbury, Ray

18.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

Nightingale, Earl

19.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

21.

Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

22.

Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.

Marcia, Wieder

23.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Schwab, Charles M.

24.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

25.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

26.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

27.

The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

28.

Inner work is finding joy in work. Our real work is heart work and soul work.

Fox, Matthew

29.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Paul, Jean

31.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

32.

One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

34.

The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their Luck arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.

Blotnick, Srully

35.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

37.

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

38.

Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

39.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

Sir Edward Dyer

40.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

Sarnoff, David

42.

I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. [John 4]

Bible

43.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

44.

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

Sikorski, Gerry

45.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Edward Chapin

46.

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

47.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

48.

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.